Discordant voices from the Zimbabwe government have greeted the arrival of NEPAD, Africa’s new economic rescue plan, exposing the widening rift on how to chart the country’s future among moderates and hardliners in the administration.
Ordinarily the ongoing debate on whether Zimbabwe should sign up to NEPAD would have been a healthy sign of democracy had it not been for the fact that the hardliners, now in the ascendancy, see the end of their political careers if the plan is adopted.
Unfortunately for the hawks, who have carved out careers by bad-mouthing anything backed by the West, there is really no choice to embracing NEPAD in the brave new Africa which enlightened African leaders are mapping out for the continent.
NEPAD, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, rightly makes good political and economic governance the centrepiece of any meaningful economic revival because, without the observance of the rule of law and human rights, no development can take place.
The authors of NEPAD are none other than a new breed of democratic and elected leaders of Africa who want to break away once and for all from the continent’s endemic circle of abject poverty, civil strife and oppression caused by Africa’s governments.
It is the boldest economic development initiative yet to be unveiled by Africa.
Ordinarily the ongoing debate on whether Zimbabwe should sign up to NEPAD would have been a healthy sign of democracy had it not been for the fact that the hardliners, now in the ascendancy, see the end of their political careers if the plan is adopted.
Unfortunately for the hawks, who have carved out careers by bad-mouthing anything backed by the West, there is really no choice to embracing NEPAD in the brave new Africa which enlightened African leaders are mapping out for the continent.
NEPAD, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, rightly makes good political and economic governance the centrepiece of any meaningful economic revival because, without the observance of the rule of law and human rights, no development can take place.
The authors of NEPAD are none other than a new breed of democratic and elected leaders of Africa who want to break away once and for all from the continent’s endemic circle of abject poverty, civil strife and oppression caused by Africa’s governments.
It is the boldest economic development initiative yet to be unveiled by Africa.